What does Cressida Dick's resignation mean for Boris?

@LunaTheCat well said 👏🏻

It doesn't sound like she should ever have been appointed but it now looks like she has been scapegoated which seems like an own goal. I have no more confidence in the government than I did before.

The Met is appalling but she is the sacrificial lamb. Expecting one woman to change generations of mysoginistic and racist culture is not possible.
There needs to be a resignation and there has been political pressure I am sure to deflect from the appalling acivity at No. 10 .

I’m still contemplating my opinion on her resignation but I do think the CPS has a poor track record on prosecuting sex crimes.
And I suspect Cressida Dick being a woman has done her no favours. Being a man is definitely an advantage when it comes to responsibility hitting your Teflon suit.

The met are incompetent AND have a misogynistic hateful culture. That's on the leadership

And under whose leadership did it all start tumbling out?

Does anyone really believe that there has been enough momentum established for it to survive her departure?

@Duntelchaig false equivalence I think. There wasn't a culture of ignoring child abusers in the CPS, just a huge failure with this one abuser and that failure was replicated in every national body (BBC, NHS, Govt etc).

The met are incompetent AND have a misogynistic hateful culture. That's on the leadership.

Duntelchaig
If one holds Cressida Dick responsible for what the Met’s faults are as leader of the organiSation - even if she wasn’t personally involved in everything, does one also hold Sir Keir Starmer responsible for not going ahead with some potential prosecutions even if he wasn’t personally involved in those?

The answer to that is No.

An awful lot of people with morals admitting theyve buggered up and resigning, pity BJ doesn't have any.

Dick should have gone a long time ago.

I want Boris gone, but this isn’t about Boris. The woman was an absolute liability and we’re well rid.

Boris is a separate discussion.

The Met is a disgrace. I'm glad she's gone.

Tweet from HIGNFY:

"Boris Johnson still in office, despite misleading #DickResigns hashtag"

I want to see Johnson out as much as anyone, but it's a separate issue imho.

Dick had to go because she was starting to embody impunity and impunity is the whole bloody problem.

If one holds Cressida Dick responsible for what the Met’s faults are as leader of the organiSation - even if she wasn’t personally involved in everything, does one also hold Sir Keir Starmer responsible for not going ahead with some potential prosecutions even if he wasn’t personally involved in those?

She was also personally censured by the Daniel Morgan enquiry for impeding their investigation. An investigation which found the Met was institutionally corrupt.

Indeed. She should have been sacked for this alone, not to mention all the other examples of her incompetence. I think it suits Johnson for her to have been given another two year contract last year. He’s admitted in the past he likes to be surrounded by chaos as it detracts from him.

All these resignations and not the one we want! How can it be that Cressida Dick has resigned and fucking Boris still has a job?

She was also personally censured by the Daniel Morgan enquiry for impeding their investigation. An investigation which found the Met was institutionally corrupt.

And she dismissively said she didn't agree with its findings.

Daniel's murderer has never been found.

He does whatever it takes to keep his job today. It will be another thing tomorrow. He doesn’t look to or care about tomorrow as long as he is ok today.

Hopefully the new one won't be as useless. It's baffling that knife crime hasn't been made a priority, Scotland have done excellent work in this area so it can be done; and her actions and comments in relation to many things has been questionable. It's a miracle she has clung in for this long, but yes probably something politic as well to deflect.

I don't get why she was on the radio at lunchtime saying that she had the support of the mayor of London though? I can't defend her but it doesn't seem to have been handled well.

If she was as bad at her job as people are saying she should have been sacked before. Now she's likely accepted some sort of pay off in exchange for her resignation? All feels like a distraction from Boris.

She was also personally censured by the Daniel Morgan enquiry for impeding their investigation. An investigation which found the Met was institutionally corrupt.

Also don’t forget the whole ‘flag down a bus’ advice if you are a woman alone and in fear for your life (from a lone male police officer!)

Have a look at the number of unarmed black males who have died in police custody under her watch. That will answer your query. An absolute disgrace.

Well @Wrongkindofovercoat

She was in operational charge when the met shot John Charles de Menezes.

And over saw the culture where Sarah Everard was murdered by a police man that other police knew was a flasher, officers took photos and made jokes about the murdered women Biba Henry and Nicole Smallman, and the Charing Cross police team made jokes about hitting women and murdering black children.

She oversaw the brutal policing of the Sarah Everard vigil.

She made an absolute shambles of party gate.

Things like that really

Why do people think she was useless/bad at the job ?